Native forest restoration usually starts with faster growing "nurse plants" that provide shelter under which to plant bigger trees—but new research suggests some big canopy trees can be planted early ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) – The second-largest alligator juniper tree in the country, known as the “Big Tree,” is still standing in the Gila National Forest as the Trout Fire burns, forest staff ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...